Little Free Art Galleries are popping up along the Route 1 corridor, with locations now in University Park, Edmonston and Brentwood.
The small box-sized installations, which feature tiny artworks submitted by the public, are the latest trend in the “little free” movement that has brought community-run libraries and food pantries to the area as well.
The town of Edmonston worked with Maryland nonprofit Operation ARTS Foundation to build an Art MAGNET, short for Mini Art Gallery Neighborhood Entertainment Tour, at Veterans Park at the intersection of Decatur Street and Taylor Road.
A second Art MAGNET is located at the Gateway Arts Center at 3901 Rhode Island Ave. in Brentwood, while University Park residents Judith and Michael Cayo Cotter set up a Free Little Art Gallery at 4301 Van Buren St.
Art Works Now founder Barbara Johnson has also added Little Free Art Shop outside its location at 4800 Rhode Island Ave. in Hyattsville.
The little free art gallery in Edmonston is also near a little free food pantry installed in December by the Handy Lad construction group and Your Destiny’s Dream graphic design.
Other little free food pantries — also called Blessing Boxes — are located at University Christian Church in Hyattsville, near St. Jerome’s Catholic Church in Hyattsville and at 6309 57th Ave. in Riverdale Park.
The Route 1 corridor also has an astonishing 57 registered Little Free Libraries: 14 in Hyattsville, 13 in College Park, seven in Greenbelt, six in Edmonston, five in Woodridge, four in Brentwood, three in University Park and in Mount Rainier, and one each in Riverdale Park and North Brentwood.
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